Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes: > On Sun, 15 May 2011 05:34:07 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user >> mode and rebuild my video drivers. > > Why not rebuild them before you reboot? It's far more convenient.
I do not know about the particular video drivers, but I have used some 'out-of-tree' drivers[1] which only build against the running kernel not the (built but not yet booted) one in /usr/src/linux. [1] The one which immediately comes to mind is for the Digi Etherlite network serial port adaptors.
